Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-20

ness, at his home In Washington.
Mrs. Sally Washington, who died recent
", aged eighty-seven years, was grand
niece OF Gen. Washington. and the widow
OF Mr.. Lawrence Washington OF Westmore-
land county, Virginia.
Senator Brown of Georgia denies that
| he is going to resign.
| Fort Smelling is to be made regiment.
| al post.
Postmaster general exonerates ex-Post
master Laraway OF Minneapolis from
blame for the big burglary.
Attorney General Garland appears in
pnclic for the first time with his cabinet
associates at Gen. Logan's funeral.
Both Secretary Endicott and Gen. Sheri
dan are in favor of making regimental
post OF Fort Smelling and OF concentrating
there an additional number Of troops.
Gen. Ruger has been asked for plans and
| estimates
Representative Reagan left for Texas Jan
| uary the Sth, to take an active part in the
senatorial contest. He will remain away
two weeks, and in the meantime the con-
duct OF the interstate commerce bill-if tbs
/ conference report is agreed to in the senate
| will be left in the hands OF Mr.. Crisp al
Georgia, the third member OF the house
| conferees.
A Berlin special says: Rumors are riff
| that the garrisons on the frontier are to bS
largely increased. From authentic sourc-
es it isiearned that the garrisons at Saarge
| mnnd. Forback, Dieuze. Colmar and Hun
ingue have been largely reinforced, bui
there are doubts as to the accuracy OF the
| report that the German garrisons in Al
SAGE Lorraine now muster 800, 600 men
whereas the normal number OF the troops
in thegarrisons in that province is 100.
900. The troops are now being drilled
daily for three hours in the use OF repeat
ing rifles recently adopted by the govern
ment for the purpose oil making them
proficient in voiley firing.
Ferdinand Gentuer, who is said to have
been the first man to brew lager beer in
America, forty years ago, died ut Coileg,
Point, N. Y.
i Senator Don Cameron pays taxes or
$S5, 900 worth OF property in Washing
ton.
Judge Pickett, Of Connecticut, has fined
two superintendent OF two New England
railroads for .hlacklistins workingmau.
st. Paul has a 'srossum Club, compos
ed of natives OF the Sunny South. and onc'
a year they dine on 'Possum at the Ryar
Hotel.
The German ship Elizabeth stranded OF
the Virginia coast near Cape Henry
Twenty men lost their lives, including fiv,
OF the brave members OF the lifesavin,
| crews.
Senator Frye has proposed an amend
ment to the postofice appropriation bill
making an appropriation Of Sf00, 900 FOL
the transportation of South American
mails in American vessels.
Senator Plumb OF Kansas introduced 1
bill authorizing registers and receivers a
the land office where there was no cour
present to issue judicial processes. to issul
subpenas for witnesses wanted in lane
cases. Witnesses are to be allowed S1.5t
To- each days attendance, and five cent
per mile mileage going and coming. Thi
bill, it is thought will obyiate many diff
culties now surrounding the just hearing o
cases before local land officers who ar
greatly handicapped by their inability Il
compel the attendance OF proper witnesses
The president has declined to interfere II
the cases OF John T. Eceles. James Lowell
and Albert 0'Dell, who are to be hanged
at Fort Smith, Ark, for murder.
The president nominated MS coasuls
Isaac X. Diller OF Illinois, A. Florence anC
Willoughby Walling OF Indiana, at Leitz
The list OF killed by the late accident o,
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad is nov
siven as follows: David ODER, 0berlin, Pa.
II
s. Gartner, Mechanicsville, Iowa; w. II
Parks, Washington.D. c.; Joseph Postleth
waite and his two sons, Spencer and Henry
Martinburg w. Va; T. O. Peinberton
Payne, Ohio.
Ava Adams, Coiorado's new governor, il
from Dane county, Wisconsin.
I Senator Joe Brown of Georgia has giver
away $100, 900 to various charitable in
situations in the South.
John Fitzgerald, president OF the irisl
National League OF America, has contrib
uted 81, 900 to the Mrs Logan fund.
Capt. r. b. Mason. one OF the pioneers o
the Northwest, highly esteemed citizen o
Bismarck, died suddenly of heart disease
Capt. Mason was prominently connected
with the construction OF the Norther,
Pacific road at Bismarck, and with the de
velopment OF more important enterprise
August Colt. of Eau Claire, was killed ii
the woods by tree falling on him.
All the horse car men of Boston strucl
onMonday the 10th, but the companies
conceded to their demands.
Michael Dayitt was interviewed in Chica
go, and said: THE difficulties in the way
of Lord Salisburys administration bav'
been brought about by a demoralizinj
condition Of affairs; first in his own cabin
| CT, RESULTING III tUe feslgndtlOn OF
Churchill, Lord Iddosleigh and Lord Cross
serond, the fulfillment lin the condition o
things in Ireland) OF Mr.. Giadstone's pro
4 phetic declaration, made eight or ter
| months ago, that ireland could not posi-
bly, be governed except under home rul,
constitution, is naturally encouraging Il
the ex-premier." "What do you see il
the horizon that is encour aging to your
self?" IA great deal. The impending col
lapse OF the tory government is gratifying
The breaking down ofthe tory party hav,
predicted in every address | have deliv
cred in the United States durin,
the past four months, | see tn,
Irish showing splendid fighting spir
it, and at the same time exhibiting grea
self-restraint under provocation. No.with
standing the various petty prosecution
against Dillon. o Brien. and Others the fight
against the unjust rents is being mos
vigorously sustained.
The negotiations between Chamberlain
and Morley are tending toward an agree
ment on the land bill on the basis of Mr.
Chamberlain's former propositions t.
limit the operations OF the bill to tn
purchase OF the smaller holdings, thus re
quiring total capital guaranteed by tn
imperial exehequer OF f25, 600, 0e0.
A statement prepared by the revenue
bureau shows that the oleomargarinet trade
In Minnesota is not in q fourishing condi
ton. The statistics cover the period o
one month, and give the Information that
there are only three wholesale and two re
tail dealers in oleomargarine in the state
and the number Of pounds OF the articl,
assessed was only 2,731.
DIR. Louis Morris Augusta Roy, fol-
| many years resident of st. Paul, died o
| diph iberia, after a brief illness. He con
tracted tho disease from his little daughter
who succumbed to the dread complaint 9
few days since. DIR. Roy was successful
practitioner, and was highly esteemed By
his associates.
The senate passed bill authorizing al
uptown bridge in st. Paul, from bluff tc
bluff over the river.
Jennie Pierce, tia young woman who
came to Minneapolis several weeks ago pur
suing the young man whom she claimed
had ruined her, is insane at the Paul)
house, Minneapolis. The unfortunat,
! Young woman has worried over her mis-
| fortune until she Is demented. The youn,
man in the case is now attending her.
At Suncook, n. H.. the opera house biocl
and hotel adjoining were burned.
At Brockton, Mass, A. J.. Beck's sho,
factory was burned. Loss, Si05, 900; in
surance, $4,000.
At Carlisle, KY, the buildings OF F. n
Peale and j. H. Piper and hedentist ofIic,
of DIR. H. H. Genslinger were burned
recently. Loss, SEQ. 900; insurance. $25,
900.
| Ex-senator Hearst OF California owns /
ranch of 4S, 900 acres at San Simeon.
The bill introduced by Senator Sher.n al
to reimburse the depositors OF the Freed
mans Savings and Trust company for loss
es incurred by the failure OF that institu
ton provides: The successors in office o
the commissioners OF the Freedman's Saw
ings and Trust company are directed L
pay to all the depositors OF the deinnci
company whose accounts have been prop